I just got the surprise of my life today. I mentioned in another thread that I had shipped my daughter's Speedmaster from here home in Texas to mine. It has been sitting for many years so the carbs had gunked.
A good friend picked the bike up at the shipping center in Tacoma and had been trying to clean the carbs. We took them off a second time, stripped them down and cleaned them as best we could but to no avail. The bike would still not run right. I called the local Triumph shop to see what a new carb would cost and learned that I couldn't buy just one and that it would be $2,000 for the pair. WHAT? I called another Triumph shop (where I used to get my Rocket serviced) and he confirmed that price but also told me they were not available. He said they had been successful putting them in a sonic cleaner so that is what I'll be doing. If it doesn't work I guess this beautiful, low mileage bike becomes a paper weight in my shop.
